Alphabet Recognition Activities
Alphabet recognition is a building block for a strong foundation in reading. Alphabet recognition simply means knowing the names of the letters and the sounds they represent. It is one of the most dominant predictors in the success of early literacy, and is an important skill which opens the door for beginning readers.
Each activity below was created to help your child practice reading fundamentals in a FUN and engaging way. These activities and games are designed to optimize your involvement with your child as you help reinforce skills such as letter identification, letter sounds, identification of consonants and vowels, word families, rhyming, and vocabulary.
ABC Song Activity 1: Tic Tac Wee-phabets
Help your child identify the ABC letter names and sounds, along with identifying a word that has the sound in it by playing “Tic Tac Wee-phabets.”
Download the Tic Tac Wee-phabets Printable PDF
ABC Song Activity 2: ZYX Twist
Challenge your child’s knowledge of letter identification as the two of you play “ZYX Twist”, a backwards alphabet game.
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ABC Song Activity 3: Wee-phabet Scavenger Hunt
Your child will join Mr. Wee and Boo’s “Wee-phabet Scavenger Hunt”, looking for objects around the house that begin with the letters of the alphabet.
Download the Wee-phabet Scavenger Hunt Printable PDF
ABC Song Activity 4: Big Letter, Little Letter
Upper case and lower case letter identification is the focus of this activity which will have your child skipping, hopping, and dancing around as he locates the letters he hears in the song.
Download the Big LETTER, little letter Printable PDF
ABC Song Activity 5: What Am I?
Your child will learn to identify consonants and vowels in the ABC game “What Am I?”
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ABC Song Activity 6: Dance to the Wee-phabet
Songs, movement, and learning make “Dance to the Wee-phabet” an activity to get your wee one moving! Learning to identify letters and recognize their sounds is what this one is all about.
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ABC Song Activity 7: Guess My Name, Guess My Sound!
“Guess My Name, Guess My Sound!” is another challenging activity that will raise the bar for those children who are already able to point out the letters on an alphabet chart.
Download Guess My Name, Guess My Sound! Printable PDF
ABC Song Activity 8: Ready, Set, Search!
A letter search using an ABC book, magazine, newspaper, or cereal box – which ever your child chooses to use in this game called “Ready, Set, Search!”
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ABC Song Activity 9: When You Hear…and Freeze!
This game helps teach your child to listen for words with the identified letter sound.
Download When You Hear and Freeze Printable PDF
ABC Song Activity 10: Wee Match
“Wee Match” is a very basic, yet effective activity which will help your child identify letter names and their shapes. (Printable: Wee-phabet mat)
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ABC Song Activity 11: Letters, Letters, Everywhere!
Building alphabet recognition is an important step in learning to read. In this activity called, “Letters, Letters, Everywhere”, your child will begin to recognize and identify letters of the alphabet.
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ABC Book Activity 1: Mr. Wee and Boo’s Hidden Letter Hunt
“Mr. Wee and Boo’s Hidden Letter Hunt” is a favorite for children of all ages! Letter recognition has never been so much fun as your child looks for 52 (upper case and lower case) letters of the alphabet.
Download MrWee and Boos Hidden Letter Hunt Printable PDF
ABC Book Activity 2: Wee Spies Wee-phabets
Help reinforce identification of the letters of the alphabet, and increase listening and thinking skills as you and your child play “Wee Spies Wee-phabets”.
Download MrWee Spies Wee-phabets Printable PDF
ABC Book Activity 3: Wee Wonder
The focus of “Wee Wonder” is to reinforce letter identification as well as build vocabulary and learn facts about some of the words found in Mr. Wee and Boo’s Wee-phabet Adventure by Danielle Rivera and Emmanuel Colliot.
Download Wee Wonder Printable PDF
ABC Book Activity 4: Twinkle, Twinkle, Reading Rhymes
Your child will build rhyming skills in “Twinkle, Twinkle, Reading Rhymes.”
Download Twinkle, Twinkle, Reading Rhymes Printable PDF
ABC Book Activity 5: My Wee-phabet Book
In “My Wee-phabet Book”, your child will create his own ABC collage of pictures as he demonstrates his knowledge of the letters and sounds.
Download My Wee-phabet Book Printable PDF
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